Activities at St Thomas Care Home
Our activities coordinator is dedicated to organising meaningful activities on an individual and group basis to fulfill the daily needs of our residents, as we understand how important mental and physical stimulation is for their wellbeing. Our activities are available to everyone who wants to take part and there is something different going on everyday. We often go out on day trips including visiting shopping centres, garden centres, evening meals at the local pubs, visits to local schools and also coffee mornings with other care homes. We have a wide range of entertainers that visit us at our home including musical therapists, Millers Ark Farm, pantomimes as well as our local salvation army and lots more. We encourage families to join us on trips out and also in home activities such as baking, arts and crafts, dancing and singing, we believe this is a great way for our residents to live an active and fun life here with us at St Thomas.
Teresa Humphreys
Hello. My name is Teresa. I am the Dementia Champion here at St. Thomas Care Home
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at St Thomas Care Home
Poppies in the Sunshine!
Residents made wonderful a poppy display in November which looked so pretty in the sunshine on our conservatory corridor, it certainly made a talking point during resident strolls around the home and helped with the reminiscence for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. Thank you to everyone in the team for their hard work putting it together.
Firework Night!
Memories of making the ‘Guy’ for firework night was the subject of our reminiscence, when a penny for the guy on the corner of the street or a doorstep would provide the money to buy fireworks! This year we collected magazines and newspapers to stuff our outfit, however reading and looking at the pictures proved to be rather distracting so it did take a while. Great fun for everyone and he did look rather good, far too nice to put on a fire so he’s staying with us for the time being
Baby shower times 3!
The three mums on our team will be will be leaving us soon to go on maternity leave.
Residents got creative to adorn the home in decorations for the baby shower.
Everyone had a great time at the party with the mums to be being showered in beautiful gifts.
Free colouring poster for Remembrance Day
St Thomas care home have created a lovely colouring page for Remembrance Day. It could be coloured in and put in a window or displayed at your children's school or nursery. Great for after school activities and Cubs, Brownies, Scout groups etc. Please feel free share our post on Facebook, @barchesterstthomas, with schools and groups that may be interested, for a jpeg copy please email: alison.titheridge@barchester.com or call us for more details. Residents would love to see your creations so do email us a photo!
Pumpkin wreath making
Residents spent a very enjoyable afternoon creating pumpkin wreaths with foliage from our gardens, (so especially ‘green’ as no miles travelled!), the team all joined in to help and we made beautiful displays for our home – At St Thomas we are proud to be making Halloween dementia friendly and fun for residents
Christmas Cake Making!
Here at St Thomas we decided it’s never too early to start mixing your Christmas cake – actually only 62 sleeps to go! Residents started by soaking dried fruits in a mix of brandy and sherry, the smell was divine as it was stirred in, then adding a secret ingredient, hand chopped prunes for a really moist cake.
We did lose some fruit along the way as we needed to taste it, just to check enough of the right spirits – residents voted it delicious
